Anyone know of a simple tutorial for using Dragon Dictate on a dual-boot MAC? Dragon works better on a PC, and the idea ids to shuffle Scrivener files across to Mac after dictation. I have Dragon 12.5
and an Imac late 2009.
Other option is buy another Scrivener and run everything on a PC laptop.
Any thoughts welcome, burt I’m leaning to the all PC solution. (dont know)
John
The built-in advanced dictation in Mavericks and Yosemite is really impressive. Tried it? How does it compare? Possible solution?
Development of Dragon Dictate for the Mac has tended to lag behind Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC. Consequently, I used to run DNS on the Mac in Windows/Parallels: with MS Word for Windows, it did need 16 Gb of RAM. However, I’ve found that the latest version of Dragon Dictate is good enough. It lacks some of the bells and whistles of the latest version of DNS, but its “dictation engine” is pretty much the same. And you don’t have all the fuss of re-booting into Windows and all the endless Windows and anti-virus updates. (I haven’t tried Yosemite’s built-in dictation yet, but heard good reports.) Best place for advice is here.
I use Dragon Dictate and Scrivener for my daily work. Of course, Dragon NaturallySpeaking is better than Dragon Dictate but you can do a lot of things with Dragon Dictate as well. I made a lot of voice-commands to use with Scrivener. So with one word I open and close the binder, the inspector, my comments, my footnotes, I go to full screen mode and back, I split up my screen in both directions and so on. I even open my projects simply by saying their names. It is very easy to create your own voice commands for an application for all menu elements and keyboard shortcuts that that application offers. However, if you know a little bit about AppleScript or Shell you can even go further.
When it comes to dictation there should be no difference between Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Dragon Dictate because, as far as I know, they both use the same speech engine. However with Dragon Dictate you don’t have, what they call full text control except in an old version of pages, version 4.3. (Don’ t know if DNS has that?) That means Dragon Dictate is losing control if you paste something in, if you mix up voice commands with mouse and keyboard, if you try to handle long documents, if you not only dictate but edit by voice as well. Then it is very likely that Dragon Dictate loses the orientation, text appears where it should not appear and that makes the software pretty useless. That is annoying, but if you know the software, you know how to deal with it: the simple command cache document, brings Dragon Dictate back into position (well most of the times 
. The only bad thing about it is, that the cursor is then at the end of the document and you have to scroll back to where you have been working.
So if you know a little bit about the problems of Dragon Dictate you can get a fairly well workflow with Dragon Dictate and Scrivener. If you just want to avoid typing and if you do everything else by hand, most of the time you are not going to face these problems at all.